hello and welcome to speak American English with Lyman Holton my name is
Lyman Holton in this lesson we're going to talk about
more American English pronunciation are you ready let's begin consonant blends
now if you are a regular watcher of these videos that I make you remember
the one prior to this it said consonant blends but I told you that consonant
blends were when we took two consonants place them side-by-side and they made a
new sound did you catch that a new sound no a blend their sounds blend together I
wanted to put that little error in there yesterday so that today when you watch
this video the word blend will stay in your mind we're blending we're putting
two sounds together but they're not making a new sound not a new sound we'll
talk about consonant new sounds in the word we use to describe that in a later
video we're talking about consonant blends now there were 20 pairs of
letters we put together and we're going to talk about five of those pairs and
additional words that they can be used in in this video then after this video
we'll continue on can we finish all 20 of them alright so we have B L remember
B was assembling by elf la la la blah blah blah Inc a N and n k-cup
egg egg a and K always sounds like egg if this was PL the word of the plank be
L blank blank means nothing empty it's not
there the shelves are blank we would really say that but we would say that a
line here if there were no but there wasn't a word on it it would be a blank
line maybe the person had a blank look on
their face no expression bland BL block E and D now ii n together normally just
sounds like and the letter n deep duh endeth like the end of the road the end
of the video it's over it's done blah and phlegm like we use the word here you
blend two things or more together to make something else right lend a blend
of pine whiskey so blend of tobacco's a blend different things put together
blind bl-blood i m d IM is in deed uh but it's not
blend this changes i and ii sounds like I need I need a long I sound BL block
blind blind is when someone cannot see they have no eyesight they're a blind
person now in modern times we don't really say they're blind we say they're
visually impaired that sort of thing br br be but are rah rah rah rah rah you
can hear both of those letters and they kind of blend together bro and aan and
like an apple and elephant and CH h edge bruh branch branch
a branch tree treatise think of trees they have branches on them pick up a
large bank that has smaller banks with the same name scattered about the stage
or the nation those would be called branch offices right or maybe a large
real estate company does that branch be our ibge it sounds like edge edge BR bra
edge bridge do you know what a bridge is a bridge you have something cars drive
on to get from one point to another usually it's because there's water in
between it or there's a very steep crevasse a valley of some sort and we
build a bridge across those so you can drive across the bridge or walk across
the bridge br-r-r-rup an aim brook and brain the organ in your
head is called a brain and the brain is where your mind rests right as where
your mind is fixed in your brain is the organ oh okay now people make a mistake
a common name in the United States for a man is Brian Br I am I an eye on Brian
and empathize people make a mistake when they write down the person's name and
they write down brain like well I'm going to say hello to brain no it's
Brian Brian okay here we have CL cut Sika l la la Ock och och okay is Ock is
och och clock clock clock the clock on the wall
tells us the time of day CL clock flop here we have O's O's now here close like
we're going to close the door close the window the store is closed
okay the all is long because of the e the e gives it a long sound did you know
that close here we have club club ever lever if someone says that you're very
smart you're tricky maybe tricky you're kind of cluttered
your clutter oh he's a clever person he or she can figure things out they're
smart right claw ever ever Evie er is the word ever like have you
ever eaten chocolate ice cream mm but this is clever clever CR why cry
cut ruff ruff the R sound crup why sounds like an AI cry if you're
sad you may cry boohoo CR crumb and we have Oh W Oh
it sounds like Oh in this word acro have you ever heard of a bird called a crow
they're all black they're rather large they're very noisy typically you see
them out in rural areas where there's farms they like to get in and eat the
corn and Nelly just biting very smart bird there are little larger ones are
called Ravens the smaller ones are crows they make a cock cock sound CR claw EE
in this word sounds like E okay sounds like rough Creek a Creek
think of it as a very small narrow river very small something you might even be
able to jump over but it's not what we consider a river is very narrow
also they might call it a small stream but a creek works dr what sound is that
d is done r is raw draw draw s es sounds like s let's say en sounds
like n es sounds like s dress dress usually if we say dress we're talking
about a piece of clothing that a woman wears a dress usually one piece and is
for women dress dr-drop a game drop a G what do you think a G sounds like could
it be egg egg drag drag okay Dre now perhaps
you have a very heavy box or bag of something - too much weight it's too
heavy you can't lift it so you is drag it across the floor drag dr-drop now
here we have Y sounds like I well in this word it sounds like I as well so
can you sound it out D are don't rub rub I try dry perhaps you haven't had any
rain in your area where you live for a long time
and people are saying all my goodness it's very dry
side or after you eat a meal you have to wash your dishes do you set your dishes
on the side of the sink so that they can just drain off and dry in the air or do
you take a towel and dry each plate and cup before you put it in a cup or in the
cupboard two different ways to do it people do it different ways all right
five we have 15 more to go for the consonant blends
remember there are two consonants that come together blending their sounds
together not making a new sound all right that's the end of this video thank
you for watching and I look forward to seeing you at our next lesson good bye
for now